68 Delicious Food Logos Of Bakeries Butcheries And Restaurants

A while back I was working on a logo project for an outdoor cooking company in Texas, USA. I did a roundup of beautiful gourmet logos at that time. Fast forward a couple of months and this time around I was working on a delicious logo for a sausage company in UK. To say I constantly had food on my mind would be an understatement. The only logos I looked at while developing this logo were rival sausage company logos. So when the project was wrapped up, I feasted my eyes on food and food-related logos on Flickr, Behance and Logopond. There were many exceptional ones that stuck out. So I decided to do another roundup of delicious food logos that represented food products, food services, food websites, restaurants and bars. Have a browse and don’t get too hungry!

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A R Rahman's life

A R Rahman's life

Allah Rakha Rahman better known as AR Rahman was born as AS Dileep Kumar. Rahman was born in Chennai in 1966 to a musically affluent Mudaliar Tamil family. His father R K Shekhar, was a Chennai based composer and conductor for Malayalam films.Rahman lost his father at a young age and his family rented out musical
equipment as a source of income. He was raised by his mother Kareema (Kashturi). During these formative years, Rahman served as a keyboard player and an arranger in bands such as "Roots", with childhood friend and percussionist Sivamani, John Anthony, Suresh Peters, JoJo and Raja. Rahman is the founder of the Chennai-based rock group, "Nemesis Avenue". He played the keyboard and piano, the synthesizer, the harmonium and the guitar. His curiosity in the synthesizer, in particular increased because, he says, it was the "ideal combination of music and technology". Rahman is the founder of the Chennai-based rock group, "Nemesis Avenue". He played the keyboard and piano, the synthesizer, the harmonium and the guitar. His curiosity in the synthesizer, in particular increased because, he says, it was the "ideal combination of music and technology". He began early training in music under Master Dhanraj. At the age of 11, he joined, as a keyboardist, the troupe of Ilaiyaraaja, one of many composers to whom musical instruments belonging to Rahman's father were rented. Rahman later played in the orchestra of M S Viswanathan Ramesh Naidu and Raj Koti, accompanied Zakir Hussain, Kunnakudi Vaidyanathan and L. Shankar on world tours and obtained a scholarship to the Trinity College of Music where he graduated with a degree in Western classical music. He is married to Saira Banu and has three children, Khadijah, Rahima, and Aameen. Rahman has always kept his kids away from the media glare. Rahman is the uncle of composer G V Prakash Kumar, who is the son of Rahman's elder sister, AR Reihana. Rahman had become an atheist as a result of childhood struggles, but eventually converted to Islam in 1989, the religion of his mother's family. He is very devoted to his mother. During the Oscar Award also he paid her a tribute saying: "There is a Hindi dialogue 'mere pass ma hai' which means even if I have got nothing I have my mother here." Now coming to his professional graph, In 1992, Rahman began his own music recording and mixing studio attached to the backyard of his house called the Panchathan Record Inn, which was developed into India's most advanced recording studio. He initially composed music jingles for advertisements, Indian Television channels and music scores in documentaries, among other projects. In 1992, he was approached by film director Mani Ratnam to compose the score and soundtrack for Ratnam's Tamil film Roja. The debut led Rahman to receive the Rajat Kamal award for Best Music Director at the National Film Awards, the first time ever by a debutant film composer. Rahman has since then gone on to win the award three more times (for his scores for Minsaara Kanavu (Tamil) in 1997, Lagaan in 2002, Kannathil Muthamittal (Tamil) in 2003, the most ever by any composer. Roja's score met with high sales and acclaim, in its original and dubbed versions, bringing about a marked change in film music at the time, and Rahman followed this with successful scores for Tamil–language films of the Chennai film industry including Ratnam's politically charged Bombay, the urbanite Kadhalan, Bharathiraaja's Karuththamma, the saxophonic Duet, Indira, and the romantic comedies Mr Romeo and Love Birds, which gained him considerable notice. His fanbase in Japan increased with Muthu's success there. His soundtracks gained him recognition in the Tamil Nadu film industry and across the world for his stylistic versatality in his pieces including in Western classical, Carnatic, Tamil traditional/folk, jazz, reggae and rock music.The Bombay Theme from Ratnam's Bombay later reappeared in Deepa Mehta's Fire and various compilations and media. He then gave music for Dil Se and Sufi mysticism formed the basis of Chaiyya Chaiyya, another song Jiya Jale sung by Lata Mangeshkar was also a hit. Musical cues in scores for Sangamam and Iruvar Rahman employed Carnatic vocals and instruments such as the veena with leads of rock guitar and jazz. In the 2000s Rahman created hit scores for Rajiv Menon's Kandukondain Kandukondain, Alaipayuthey, Ashutosh Gowariker's Swades and Rang De Basanti. Music of both Swades and Rang De Basanti was a hit. Rahman has worked with poets and lyricists such as Javed Akhtar, Gulzar,Anand Bakshi, PK Mishra, Mehboob, Vairamuthu and Vaali.His collaborations with some film directors have always resulted in successful soundtracks, particularly with director Mani Ratnam who he has worked with since Roja, all of which have been hits. With director S Shankar also he has given some great hits in the films like Gentleman, Kadhalan, Indian, Jeans, Mudhalvan, Nayak, Boys and Sivaji. Rahman attached and opened a developed extension studio to his Panchathan Record Inn in 2005 called AM Studios in Kodambakkam, Chennai — considered to be the most developed, equipped and high techstudio in Asia.In 2006, Rahman launched his own music label, KM Music. Its first release was his score to the film Sillunu Oru Kaadhal. Rahman scored the Mandarin language picture Warriors of Heaven and Earth in 2003 after researching and utilising Chinese and Japanese classical music. He also co-scored music for Shekhar Kapoor helmed Elizabeth: The Golden Age in 2007. His compositions have been reused in scores within India and have made appearances in Inside Man, Lord of War, Divine Intervention and The Accidental Husband. In 2008, he scored the Slumdog Millionaire soundtrack, for which he won a Golden Globe and two Academy Awards, becoming the first Indian citizen to do so. In the United States, the soundtrack topped the Dance/Electronic Albums chart and reached Number 4 on the Billboard 200 chart.The song Jai Ho reached number 2 on the Eurochart Hot 100 Singles and Number 15 on the US Billboard Hot 100. The music composer, who has done India proud by winning the prestigious trophy now has his hands full. Rahman has a project with Mick Jagger and has also got a new studio in Los Angeles. Rahman has got two Grammy nominations, one in Best Song Written For Motion Picture, and no surprises the anthem, which has had the world singing Jai Ho as well as a nomination for Best Compilation Soundtrack for the film. The Oscar led to a wave of interest in his work internationally. First, Pussycat Dolls danced to the tunes of Jai Ho, then Snoop Dogg named the promo single of his album Malice n Wonderland the title ‘Snoop Dogg Millionaire', which featured the song's playback singer Tanvi Shah. Rahman has been involved in several projects aside from film. He made an album Vande Mataram (1997) on India's 50th anniversary of Independence to commercial success. He followed it up with an album for the Bharat Bala–directed video Jana Gana Mana, a conglomeration of performances by many leading exponents/artists of Indian classical music. Rahman has written jingles for ads and composed several orchestrations for athletic events, TVand internet media publications, documentaries and short films.In 1999 Rahman, along with choreographers Shobhana and Prabhu Deva Sundaram and a Tamil cinema dancing troupe performed with Michael Jackson in Munich, Germany, for his "Michael Jackson and Friends Concert."In 2002, he composed his maiden stage production Bombay Dreams (2002) following a commission from musical theatre composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, a
success in London's West End. With Finnish folk music band Varttina, he wrote the music for The Lord of the Rings theatre production and in 2004, Rahman composed the piece "Raga's Dance" for Vanessa-Mae's album Choreography. In the last six years, Rahman has performed three successful world tours of his concerts to audiences in Singapore, Australia, Malaysia, Dubai, UK, Canada, the US (Hollywood Bowl and 3d tour) and India. He has been collaborating with Karen David for her upcoming studio album. A two-disc soundtrack, Introducing A R Rahman (2006) featuring 25 pieces he composed from his Tamil film scores was released in May 2006. His non-film album, Connections was launched on 12 December 2008. His first soundtrack for Roja was listed in Time's "10 Best Soundtracks" of all time in 2005. Film critic Richard Corliss felt the "astonishing debut work parades Rahman's gift for alchemizing outside influences until they are totally Tamil, totally Rahman." In 2009, the magazine placed Rahman in the Time 100 list of 'World's Most Influential People'. Rahman, in a career spanning over a decade, has sold more than 100 million records of his film scores and soundtracks worldwide and sold over 200 million cassettes, making him one of the world's all-time top selling recording artists. Time magazine referred to him as the "Mozart of Madras" and several Tamil commentators have coined him the nickname Isai Puyal which means "Music Storm". Rahman has recently composed music for Delhi 6, Blue and also for the forthcoming Raavan with Mani Ratnam.